How do we define the nature of our business, gather everything
that we know about it, and then centralize our information in one,
easily accessed place within the organization? Breslin and McGann
call such knowledge our ways of working and the place where it will
be found a business knowledge repository. All of a company's
accumulated operations data, its manuals and procedures, its
records of compliance with myriad regulations, its audits, disaster
recovery plans--are essential information that today's management
needs at its fingertips, and information that tomorroW's management
must be sure can easily be found. Breslin and McGann show clearly
and comprehensively how business knowledge repositories can be
established and maintained, what should go into them and how to get
it out, who should have access, and all of the other details that
management needs to make the most of this valuable resource and
means of doing business. An essential study and guide for
management at upper levels in all types of organizations, both
public and private.
Breslin and McGann show that once an organization's knowledge of
itself is formulated into its ways of working, its so-called object
orientation makes it easily maintained. The repository approach to
organizing and consolidating knowledge makes it possible for all of
its potential users to access it easily, without having to go to
one source for one thing they need and to another for another
thing, a tedious and costly procedure in many organizations that
have allowed their information and knowledge resources to not only
grow but become duplicated as well. The repository approach also
makes it possible for management to organize and access information
by job functions, and to make it available to employees more easily
in training situations. Regulators and auditors are also more
easily served. As a result, CFOs will find their annual audit and
various compliance fees considerably reduced. Breslin and McGann's
book is thus a blueprint for the creation of knowledge repositories
and a discussion of how graphical communication between information
systems creators and their client end users can be made to flow
smoothly and efficiently.
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